Inspiration point (IP)
This week's IP is a bit daft. Make up a word. There’s a grand tradition of nonce-words, Shakespeare was a master of them. A nonce word is for an occasion where you need a new word, just for now – or ‘for the nonce’. Anyway, make one up, write something containing it, about it, defining it or saying why you/we need it. Whatever you like. Good luck with your nonce-sence.
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Wings
She takes her wings out. Sometimes, when she’s alone. She holds them out in front of her the way you might a long dress, shaking them a couple of...
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Young at heart
I look in the mirror and all I can see Is a frail old woman staring back at me ‘Mom, is that you?’ I ask her bemused But then I realize I was...
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Drum Dream
Music was my final merit badge. I decided that my attempt to trail the Eagle was running out of enthusiasm. I quit Boy Scouts the same day that I...
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Oh Susannah (Part 2)
For awhile, I had aspirations of becoming an Eagle Scout. I had the Boy Scout Manual which described all of the requirements for any merit badge...
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A Good Run
Stuck in this room, body half dead. My mouth doesn’t work much since the stroke. Or my hands. So between visits I mostly sit here. Watching memories like a tv in my head.
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